[BELGIAN SURREALISM] A collection of letters... - Lot 2 - Pestel-Debord

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[BELGIAN SURREALISM] A collection of letters... - Lot 2 - Pestel-Debord
[BELGIAN SURREALISM] A collection of letters and correspondence addressed to Paul Gustave VAN HECKE (1887-1967), a Ghent journalist, gallery owner, collector, art promoter and patron of the arts, he was the husband of the dressmaker Norine, "la Chanel du Nord". Van Hecke played a decisive role in promoting the emergence of modern art on the Belgian art scene during the inter-war period. After the Second World War, he founded the Brussels Film Festival and organised the exhibition at the Casino of Knokke-le-Zoute every summer. Most of the letters addressed to him here are under the friendly diminutive of "Tatave". In this important set of letters addressed to Van Hecke, you will find : - A correspondence from Edouard Léon Théodore MESENS (1903-1971), Belgian writer and poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement in Belgium. It consists of 14 signed autograph letters, forming about thirty pages in-8 and in-4, and two autograph postcards, written in 1952-1953. This correspondence relates to the Max Ernst catalogue and the Max Ernst retrospective exhibition that took place in the summer of 1953 at the casino in Knokke. The subjects addressed in these letters concern the illustration of the catalogue, the organisation of the exhibition with the selection of Max Ernst's works, the loans envisaged by possible collectors, their transport, insurance and restitution. - A correspondence from Gustave J. NELLENS (1907-1971), writer, collector of Belgian and surrealist painters, and who was director of the casino of Knokke. A first part of the correspondence runs from February to June 1953, it is made up of 3 signed letters about the Max Ernst exhibition and a set of typed letters about the agreements and disagreements he had with the painter René Magritte about the decor painted by the artist in the chandelier room of the casino. He wrote "I always prefer to address Magritte through you rather than to contact him directly", "what
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